johnny wilson - 4. 1967

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on january 8, 1967, the american and south vietnamese armies launched “operation cedar falls” in vietnam. joe wilson had become fascinated by the vietnam war, and read everything he could about it in the newspaper. joe had enlisted in the army in 1960 at the age of 18, and spent a little less than three years in uniform, mostly as a mechanic in the headquarters company of a transportation battalion in fort ord, california. now, reading the accounts of american g i’s battling in the jungles of asia, he dreamed of leaviing his wife and child and rejoining the army and becoming a war hero like sergeant york or john wayne or audie murphy. he would never share these fantasies with anyone. 5. 1968